“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:03.) Then, you must fight or retreat. Ruburt retreated, but the situation was always in basic terms, artificially formed by your joint beliefs.

The shoddy, superficial, popular novelist is acclaimed. The original creator is scoffed at. Ruburt could not stand ridicule, and so took a proud retreat. He now understands that retreat denies the responsiveness natural to the body, mind, and spirit.

The word combines all of his goals—physical and creative—into one clear focus in which there is no ambiguity. In a way then the word, with its intent and meaning, has tremendous power, to which the body is responding. Responsive: that word does not imply retreat. It also implies the ability to respond. The energy to act. The joints have all begun to move better. In some cases now this means, relatively speaking, slight enough motion, but highly important.

The circulatory system, again, is activated. This is noticeable particularly in the feet, and all of the ligaments are beginning to release. This is an overall activation because of the overall intent, and therefore more in balance than the beginning of improvements in the past. The body instantly responds to a new image by activating its entire mechanism. Ruburt does not yet know what his response to the world will be—whether he wants, for example, television shows and so forth, or not—but he is now determined to respond, to be responsive, and not to simply retreat.

[...] Ruburt was afraid also you would retreat as he felt your father had. Therefore he put you in a position where retreat was impossible. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You then had to do many of the chores, and go out into the world, in you must admit a small fashion, but Ruburt was afraid that otherwise you would retreat.

When for whatever reason you feel unsafe over a long period of time, or when you begin to retreat, in a frightened fashion—for there are many kinds of retreat—then you cut down your options to whatever degree, and you must of necessity cut down your expectations also. [...]

[...] During this entire period, I developed a way of retreating from the world — habits of thought and action. [...]

[...] He did fear that you would become bitter if you did not succeed (as a painter), and he sometimes felt that you retreated to the studio away from him, as purposely your father retreated from your mother into the cellar or garage. [...]

[...] You also inhibited your feelings, cut yourself off from Ruburt, retreated, and were negatively motivated. [...]

[...] You were disappointed, then, shortly after you made your move, and you began to retreat. [...] When you wanted to retreat from the world, you shut down on your hearing so that you were not distracted. [...]

[...] As a result, you began this retreat. [...]

[...] You use sound as a barrier, therefore, and when you become doubly threatened, then you do not hear the sounds that come from without, but retreat from them. [...]

[...] And it was also another method of retreat. [...]

[...] At such times you became more alarmed working with your oils and colors, and wanted a retreat, and sought for greater distance in your paintings.

When you closed off and retreated to compensate, you came closer to the people with whom you work, enjoying their safer emotional contact. [...]

He would have become instantly alarmed had you not then begun to retreat. [...]

[...] He is afraid to go ahead, feeling it not safe, yet he is damned if he will retreat, and for that matter he realizes that there is no retreat from your own knowledge and experience.

[...] My suggestions were very beneficial, though, and by session time at 9:05 I realized that not only had my experience gone as “far” as it was going to go, but also that it was on the retreat. [...]

[...] She wondered if my loss of communicative abilities was also related to my father’s senility and his own physical retreat. [...]

In our demonstration, to which of course Joseph gave his permission, he allowed his consciousness to retreat, and to some degree began to cut off its physical expression. [...]

[...] It always leads to retreat when it is not faced. [...]

Fear, and a complete, if sometimes momentary loss of confidence, was the basic cause that led to retreat and the physical symptoms. [...]

[...] They can completely envelop, for example, a small cell, or retreat to the nucleus within. [...]

[...] Precisely at the point where he feels pressed enough to practically and symbolically invade your working studio with intimacy in mind, and spontaneous intimacy at that—that is the point that you quickly begin an emotional and physical retreat.

[...] This has to do with his feelings of late, of retreating from the main room. [...]

The secrecy also enables him to retreat in anger from you to some extent under the conditions mentioned earlier, and also has much to do with all of this brooding in secret. [...]

This retreat from pleasure begins to cut down upon normal activity, new encounters, or explorations that might in themselves help relieve the problem by opening up new options. [...]

Ruburt feels if you love him you will make the effort, but you retreat. [...]

[...] He alternately retreated from you in hurt bewilderment, railed at you silently, and still felt that what he wanted was not in your nature to give, and for that reason also he had no right to ask it.

[...] It will help if you do not let him retreat from it when he is tempted by the old habit.

[...] Jane continues to improve in her walking—she’s up to 12 times daily, with the aid of her typing table—so we seemed to have retreated from the prospect of her becoming so inactive that she stopped getting on her feet. [...]

[...] He trusted his mind, so the idea of retreating from the body into the mind was quite logical to him when this began. [...]

[...] Given the opportunity (when I obtained steady employment) and as soon as he was able, Ruburt then retreated from it, and gave himself the excuse for doing so—your attitudes made flesh.

A man with glasses and a scar, or a scar connected with the name, is retreating. [...]

Your pendulum work, your determination, and the sessions have aroused Ruburt’s determination to act physically, rather than to retreat, and your suggestions concerning safety are important. [...]

[...] I did indeed begin as usual in the Gallagher session, and then I retreated more to the background, so that he could become more familiar with the immediacy involved in going after such data.